Paper · Sep 29, 2025

Steady Gradient Ricci Solitons with Symmetry

Lucas Lavoyer, Luke T. Peachey

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We find new examples of steady gradient Ricci solitons with positive curvature operator in dimensions four and above. Utilising a procedure first introduced by Lai, we construct examples with symmetry in dimension for any pair of integers and discuss their asymptotic geometry.

Comments: Minor modifications, accepted into Journal of Geometric Analysis

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  1. 11A.11
    Hamilton’s 1982 TheoremBook 11A · The Ricci Flow: Existence and Maximum Principles

    Positive Ricci curvature in dimension 3 flows to a round metric.

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    Ricci SolitonsBook 11B · Solitons, Compactness and Singularities

    Self-similar solutions: the Gaussian, cylinders, the cigar and the Bryant soliton.

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    The Asymptotic Soliton and Three-Dimensional ShrinkersBook 12B · κ-Solutions and Surgery

    Perelman's Proposition 11.2 proved with Morgan and Tian: the reduced-length bounds on κ-solutions, the limit of rescalings, the equality case, and the classification of shrinking solitons in dimensions two and three.